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Maidengill, 'thorril Castle'

Bastle (medieval)

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Maidengill, 'thorril Castle' is a medieval bastle in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It still stands as a ruined castle, marked on the official map at a point accurate to the nearest ten metres. The name suggests a thistle or local identity, but the stones themselves give no explanation. They only remain beside the gill, waiting for someone to walk past and imagine the hands that built them.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Maidengill, 'thorril Castle' as Bastle (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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